About the author

My first novel, Stalker - A Wall of Silence,  is a complex mix of memoir, fact and fiction, inspired by an encounter from my schooldays with a piano teacher who was fixated on the British composer, Benjamin Britten.

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Years later I learnt about a woman who invaded a performance of Britten's opera, 'The Turn of the Screw', at the eighth Aldeburgh Festival in 1955, and wondered whether this woman and my teacher were one and the same person.

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When my quest to establish the truth was frustrated by a wall of silence  I set out to create an alternative story, one that ultimately leads to the woman's recovery and redemption.

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In the process I drew on my own schooldays and history to construct a psychodrama involving stalking, obsession, unrequited love, and picaresque encounters that vividly evoke the  period.